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WMA Codec on Linux?

mplayer does WMV so it probably does WMA too, but why would you want to? MP3 and OGG are much better choices.
 
mp3 is definitely not better than wma at 160 kbps. In fact, I think a wma file at 160kbps sounds better than an mp3 at 320kbps.

And I'm not interested in having a bunch of huge music files, what with my 1311 songs.
 
mp3 is definitely not better than wma at 160 kbps. In fact, I think a wma file at 160kbps sounds better than an mp3 at 320kbps.

And I'm not interested in having a bunch of huge music files, what with my 1311 songs.
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MS' slow but steady moves towards support and enforcing DRM is my reasoning. We've already had instances of people encoding music to WMA, reloading their OS and losing access to their music because they didn't know to turn the encryption off. What happens when you can't turn the encryption off?

I currently have 1680 ogg encoded songs on my disk, some of them are slightly larger than the MP3 equivilant but personally, I'd rather buy a larger hard drive and stick with an 'open' format.
 
I've got MPlayer installed on my RH8 system, and WMV video files play fine (the video portion at least), except I get the message that no suitable audio codec can be found. I thought I had installed the win32 dll's for WMV, are there separate codecs for WMV and WMA? Anyone got a link?

Thx.

EDIT: Nevermind, I installed the Win32 codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html and now the audio works fine.
 
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